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Ruth Graves Wakefield

Ruth Graves Wakefield (June 17, 1903 – January 10, 1977) was the inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie, which she created c. 1938. She was also a graduate and educator, a business owner, a chef, and an author.

Early life and business

Wakefield was educated at Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924. Then, she worked as a dietitian and lectured about foods. In 1928, she and her husband Kenneth Donald Wakefield (1897 - 1997) had a son, Kenneth Donald Wakefield Jr. In 1930, she and her husband bought a tourist lodge (the Toll House Inn) in the town of Whitman, Massachusetts in Plymouth County. Located about halfway between Boston and New Bedford, it was a place where passengers had historically paid a toll, changed horses and ate home-cooked meals. When the Wakefields opened their business, they named the establishment the Toll House Inn. Ruth cooked and served all the food and soon gained local fame for her lobster dinners and desserts. The restaurant had many visitors, including Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy. Her chocolate chip cookies soon became very popular. She invented chocolate chip cookies around 1938.

Wakefield was dubbed the "Merrie City" in the Middle Ages and in 1538 John Leland described it as, "a very quick market town and meately large; well served of fish and flesh both from sea and by rivers ... so that all vitaile is very good and chepe there. A right honest man shall fare well for 2d. a meal. ... There be plenti of se coal in the quarters about Wakefield".

Wakefield (MBTA station)

Wakefield is a station on the Haverhill Line commuter rail line of the MBTA. This station services nearby Wakefield Square. It is officially located at 225 North Avenue, according to the MBTA. However the actual location is across the tracks, which run parallel to North Avenue. The station is also described by some as being located at 27-29 Tuttle Street, which runs behind the station between Albion and Chestnut Streets.

Wakefield Station was originally built in 1889 by the Boston and Maine Railroad, as Wakefield Upper Depot. Another former B&M station built in the 1950s is located to the north on the corner of Tuttle and Chestnut Streets, and a former freight house built by B&M sometime around 1845 can be found south of Wakefield Square along North Avenue. The 1950s station house is now a law office, and the station operates from sheltered platforms in front of the B&M Depot, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Ruth Graves Wakefield

Ruth Graves Wakefield (June 17, 1903 – January 10, 1977) was the inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie, which she created c. 1938. She was also a graduate and educator, a business owner, a chef, and an author.

Early life and business

Wakefield was educated at Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924. Then, she worked as a dietitian and lectured about foods. In 1928, she and her husband Kenneth Donald Wakefield (1897 - 1997) had a son, Kenneth Donald Wakefield Jr. In 1930, she and her husband bought a tourist lodge (the Toll House Inn) in the town of Whitman, Massachusetts in Plymouth County. Located about halfway between Boston and New Bedford, it was a place where passengers had historically paid a toll, changed horses and ate home-cooked meals. When the Wakefields opened their business, they named the establishment the Toll House Inn. Ruth cooked and served all the food and soon gained local fame for her lobster dinners and desserts. The restaurant had many visitors, including Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy. Her chocolate chip cookies soon became very popular. She invented chocolate chip cookies around 1938.

Chocolate chips are small chunks of chocolate ... in diameter. Chocolate chips are a required ingredient in chocolate chip cookies, which were invented in 1937 when RuthGravesWakefield of the Toll House Inn in the town of Whitman, Mass., added cut-up chunks of a semi-sweet Nestlé chocolate bar to a cookie recipe. May 15 and Aug ... .......

I have a friend who doesn’t like cookies. Let me rephrase that. I know someone who would be a friend if she liked cookies, but she doesn’t, so she can’t be a viable candidate for friendship ... But the Toll House cookie was the very first chocolate chip cookie — RuthGravesWakefield invented it in 1936 at her Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Mass ... ....

I have a friend who doesn’t like cookies. Let me rephrase that. I know someone who would be a friend if she liked cookies, but she doesn’t, so she can’t be a viable candidate for friendship ... But the Toll House cookie was the very first chocolate chip cookie — RuthGravesWakefield invented it in 1936 at her Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Mass ... ....

The chocolate chip cookie was invented by the American chef RuthGravesWakefield and chef Sue Brides in 1938. One day while making cookies, Graves realized she was out of an ingredient for the recipe she was using ... However, unlike the baker’s chocolate, the chopped up chocolate bar did not melt and mix into the batter like Graves thought it would....

HAVERHILL — They whipped up some cowboy caviar during one class, then some Halloween treats during another. But this month, the menu featured cookie dough brownies ... "We raise money and receive grants from other nonprofits," Bergh said ... "The person who created cookies is named RuthGravesWakefield and created them in 1937," Keira said ... ....